On Sat 04 Jun 2016 at 00:06:34 (-0000), Dan Purgert wrote: > Ron Leach wrote: > > On 03/06/2016 17:31, Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Ron Leach wrote: > >>> Have any debian-user readers ever tried to create a list of all the > >>> email messages stored in an IMAP folder? > > > >> Do the same here (Dovecot + Postfix), not 100% certain if this'll match > >> your setup, but it should be pretty close.
> >>> [...] The person > >>> doing this would be the person whose mailbox it is, and would have the > >>> IMAP passwords etc. > >> [snip] > >> > >> #!/bin/bash > >> [...] > >> if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then > >> printf "\nSorry, this script must be run as root.\n" > >> exit 0 > >> fi > >> [snip most of the the script body] > > > > Well. That worked very well. Clever, too; I was thinking I'd need to > > use the imap protocol to extract the headers from Dovecot, in the same > > way that an email client does. > > Nah, IMAP is just a protocol for accessing the messages (similar to how > "HTTP" is the protocol for viewing "documents" over the internet). > Since you have direct access to the box, we can skip all that mess. How does your script deal with the users' IMAP passwords, or prevent the sudo-priveleged users from reading each others' emails? I was interested in seeing how this problem would be tackled "through" IMAP. I should be able coerce mutt into writing a fresh cache of the headers in an INBOX thus: Run mutt with a special configuration file: mutt -F conffile and open the appropriate inbox: -f imaps://.../INBOX readonly if required: -R conffile contains: set header_cache=some-empty-directory set imap_headers="X-ORIGINAL-TO RETURN-PATH" set spoolfile="imaps://...passwords.../INBOX The cache will appear in a folder under some-empty-directory and any non-default headers can be included by setting imap_headers. It might be sufficient to specify -f '!' (as spoolfile is set). file says the resulting cache is a "Tokyo Cabinet (1.0:911)" and I have no idea how to list its contents. It would be neat to have a customised listing (with width unrestricted by the terminal) of my INBOX on the IMAP server to which I *don't* have privileged access. Cheers, David.
